skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t today, we will tomorrow when we start working on CDC.

You’re raising a good point with MySQL, we will need to take this limitation into account. Hopefully there is a workaround.
The imap interface will also never deliver any of the mail that gmail mailservers accept but then tag spam. That's pretty much mail from any independent mailserver that's not some megacorp or spamming so much that they can use google's postmaster tools to get approved because they spam so much.
Dan's point in that article was that he spent time doing something basically for the sake of keeping up appearances. Kind of like going through motions without achieving anything useful.

It wasn't solving any problems.

It's better to focus on solving problems as they rise up, as opposed to doing things to keep in line with some arbitrary standards that may not be relevant.

Key is learn how to discern between trivial issues and real issues that affect the project.
One of my favorite network incident reports involved someone using aerial fiber for target practice...
Crypto is profitable for a lot of people. ARK is an investment firm.
Yesterday I googled "how to measure a chainsaw bar" and got targeted by a clothing company running a sale for tactical clothing, including what I can only describe as domestic terror outfits. It was striking to me to type in a single atypical search term and then be immediately cast into a completely different advertising cohort.
Ok, that makes more sense. I was considering a slightly more fully-featured table and including the header (see: https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/00faa1963023206a8ccd987798...) and I was a couple times larger than your number, so I was trying to figure out what you were doing that I was unable to replicate…
Lines of code is great approximation for complexity, or at least how many bugs you're writing: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1856...
Interesting to see some of their work here.

The strongest suit of ARK Invest in my opinion is their marketing, which is clearly demonstrated by the high inflows into their ETF.

Curious to see how they will perform on the long term, given that their portfolio is pretty heavily weighted into medium and small caps stocks.
Lift gates aren’t very expensive.
New Playbook for Covid-19 Protection Emerges After Year of Study, Missteps
Used to work for a few ISPs. 90% of the fiber cuts that were experience while I worked there were from municipal construction crews who either weren't fully paying attention when working around fiber lines, or didn't know they were there in the first place.

The lines are supposed to be known/marked to some extent but you can't avoid the human factor.

In our worst case the same city cut the fiber line in multiple places over the course of a few weeks. Our crews would finish patching one fiber break only for the same (city) crew to cut it again a few hours later.

I wasn't on the ground so I don't know exactly how they managed it, but it was a real headache for us to manage on the customer end.
Couldn’t not share this here, even though I suspect no more than 5 people will ever see this comment: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJEPfv6Q/
It's within the C and systemv abi specs, but it's not within the implicit contract of how you call command line programs. I'm fine with it.
This happens to me every now and then. I never recall clicking log out but I’m logged out on all devices.
Not without permission, for sure. I dislike how some websites will add extra text when you copy.
You could skip buying another display and just add a red filter to the existing screen.
This reads like a Pulseaudio article from 2008.

When I wished for MacOS to become more Linux-like, I regret not specifying how or when.
I bet there is some sort of positive social signaling in gambling your way to wealth as long as you succeed
That's a really good question. Let me just build on it: I remember reading a lengthy piece about the first Epstein criminal investigation in 2006. There were accounts that the investigators and prosecutors involved were being threatened by people working for Epstein, and that's part of why he got the sweetheart deal that he did.

Now I'm a minor businessman, and I've worked with high-quality law firms before. Most of them are really good at what they do. But if they're handling my criminal case and I say "hey, could I pay you extra to violently threaten the US attorney for me?" I would be shown the door about 3 seconds later. No amount of money in the world would get them to say "yes" to that.
I downloaded the source code and am hunting around but I haven't stumbled upon the pitch detection logic. Do you know what file, functions?
Quite a lot of the well known "London Fog" was coal smoke, as coal was widely used as domestic fuel up until the 1950s. Since nobody burns coal for heating or cooking any more, the pea soupers have vanished.
In the US most HIV drug manufacturers have coupons or other voucher programs that patients can use the reduce the price by a lot.
how can they say with a. straight face they value equal opportunity and then ban someone for their personal use.....sorry. but I see stupidity leeching into society everyhere.... stupidity is a nice way of saying hate..
Tests you perform locally should probably be described, if not encoded into something that other people can run as well.
Putting hockey stick shaped lines on graphs with buzzwords on the x axis and dollars on the y axis does not a big idea make.

I am disappointed to see ideas that have failed to deliver for a decade like drone delivery (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-...) and 3D printing (https://www.economist.com/briefing/2011/02/10/the-printed-wo...) have a very long buzzword shelf-life, presumably because they are enduringly futuristic. First principles should tell us that most manufactured goods will never be 3D printed. There are entire fields of engineering dedicated to manufacturing processes, because the final material properties and cost of an item are affected by things like cooling rate, grain orientation, surface finish, tensile strength, and tolerances. 3D printing is another tool in the toolbox, not a replacement for the toolbox. I personally find them useful for ideation, but useless for creating finished products. It is worth considering that the entire market for 3D printers consists of rapid prototyping and Etsy knicknacks, and that it has been saturated.
Maybe if you are thinking in terms of being able to purchase things and financial security.

Things that bring me joy are being able to donate enormously to solve social problems in my quality. I can say for certainty that it will bring me 10,000 times happiness.
I thought it was going to turn out that the employee was making bad posts, but from the quote by De Chiara, it's simply because the agent was even on those platforms at all.

My surprise lessened after I Googled the name of the agency. It seems like De Chiara has been flippant with her business partners in the past:

https://www.deangoodman.com/jennifer-de-chiara/
hope the woman gets a job and the president is sacked (in every way)
Yes, thank you for the addition.

The book was the first thing I read after we received the diagnosis for my son - although a friend had recommended it prior to this.

It also helped me as person feel less different and accepting of myself (I do not have an ASD diagnosis).
I play cello and double bass, the latter semi-pro.

What's more important is thinking about what has to happen. It requires your ears, brain, and body, to all work together, to put the right finger in the right place, consistently. Because you can't be in tune without being consistently in tune. Developing consistency is also what makes it possible to figure out what you're actually doing wrong, and correct it.

I think singing is a good exercise for ear training. There are YouTube recordings of virtually the entire student violin repertoire. Sing along. Get the tune in your head. Also, you can work on this any time, even away from the instrument.

Often overlooked is that intonation is intimately tied to technique because of the consistency factor. There are many schools of technique, but if you just pick one -- typically your teacher's -- and correct yourself when you deviate from it, you will become more consistent, and this will put you in control of playing in tune.

When I'm playing, and notice that I'm out of tune in a particular passage, I analyze what I'm doing wrong with my technique. This is something that never becomes "good enough," but is a lifelong compulsion. They interviewed Ray Brown near the end of his life, and asked why he still needed to practice. He said: "I still need to improve my intonation." That was from a master whose intonation was considered to be impeccable.

Now here's my contrarian view about temperaments. Engineers get worked up about them, but most musicians are ambivalent. Intonation transcends temperament because it has to do with controlling your body and sounding good. Only keyboard and electronic instruments have definite temperaments. String instruments have useful harmonic intervals in some keys (the "fiddle keys") but not others. Wind instruments are all over the place. I don't think there's a meaningful concept of "temperament" in an orchestra or jazz band. But when everybody is in tune, the band has a more powerful sound.

As a final comment: An adult should not expect to make progress at the rate that kids can. And I advise adult beginners to just avoid double stops -- they are not important enough to justify the mental and physical trauma.
According to the article it appears she signed up and actively encouraged others to join as well explicitly for the lack of censorship.

"In a November 12 tweet, Oefelein invited followers to join her on the conservative social network, which she described as "a great platform with no censorship." Oefelein suggested earlier this month that she may also use the far-right social networking site Gab."

The fired agent also said:

"Well thanks Twitter and @JDLitAgency," Oefelein wrote. "I just got fired because I'm a Christian and a conservative."

Which makes me suspect that she was writing political stuff with her real name on Parler/Gab, since Parler/Gab are not inherently Christian sites. (and theoretically aren't inherently conservative ones either?)
I see! You two know one another romantically.
"The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency was distressed to discover this morning, January 25th, that one of our agents has been using the social media platforms Gab and Parler. We do not condone this activity, and we apologize to anyone who has been affected or offended by this," De Chiara wrote. "The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency has in the past and will continue to ensure a voice of unity, equality, and one that is on the side of social justice."
The DIY version isn't too terrible to follow.

See:

https://gist.github.com/ruario/19a28d98d29d34ec9b184c42e5f8b... (ARM version)

https://gist.github.com/ruario/3c873d43eb20553d5014bd4d29fe3... (x86 and x64)
Amusingly, I've seen violas da gamba that have double frets for handling temperaments in different keys. And there are some bagpipes that don't have a diatonic scale at all.
The confirmed cases in Israel is over 6% of the population, and the multiple of that which would include asymptomatic and others who just didn't get tested is unknown, but probably somewhere from 4-8. Even if it's as the low end of that range, you could already be halfway to herd immunity.
Of course, the ones getting vaccinated may often already have had it (whether they know it or not).

Since the death rate tends to lag the confirmed cases rate by a couple weeks, I think the deaths will still go up for a bit regardless of whether or not people get careless.
What I guess I don’t understand is: why does the OS need to know the internal ECC block size if it doesn’t even see the ECC (or even know of its existence)? When I want a sector from my hard drive, I ask for 4096 bytes, not 4096+$ECC.[0] If I asked for 4096+$ECC, it would actually give me 4096 from the sector I requested, and $ECC from the next one. So why ask for 2048+$ECC and not just 2048?

As you said, the nature of the medium requires ECC (side note: modern hard drives do too). So if I ask for a 2048 byte sector, the drive has to read the ECC. So why ask for more than that? It already knows the sector boundaries. In other words, if I tell `dd` to use a block size of 2048+$ECC, won’t that actually work a sector and a half (well, 1 + $ECC/2048) at a time?

[0]: In fact, unlike CDs, I don’t even know or have any way of finding out how many ECC “bytes” there are in my hard drives' sectors
The negative characteristics don't apply to everyone with ASD either.
This is a fair point. Negotiated rates are usually lower and the cost should be spread across a pool of insured people, not all of whom have conditions that require ongoing high-cost therapies. Other comments in this thread also point out that there are alternative HIV treatments from Gilead and others that cost less. If the demand is not there for the new monthly injectable, ViiV will suffer for mispricing its own drug.
Who enforces anything? The government. Something similar to health records is the usual example.

I suppose coordinated action by citizens would have the same effect, but online privacy is such a complicated obfuscated issue that will never happen.
Docker Container GUI
I get a kick out of the OO languages that factor everything to such a fine granularity that there seems to be one line of executable code per class.

The exception traces go on for a couple of screens, so I guess the coders feel like their CompSci degrees are justified.
> For customers that require more control across their DevOps processes and support, the GitLab Premium tier is a better suited offering than Bronze/Starter.

How about you leave that for the customers to decide?
This reads like...Big Ideas from the past decade. I came away with nothing. And Bitcoin mentioned twice? No thank you.
Melvin Capital just got bailed out.
Are you claiming JS or V8 is heavily influenced by SmallTalk?
Wow- crazy to see people at Backblaze actually read that article!!

Thank you guys for putting out so much data and writing so much about your findings- it was HUGE in helping me come to conclusions about what's realistic to assume from SMART stats. Y'all are doing some really really cool stuff.
Isn’t it obvious? Most companies subject to regulations are physically located somewhere. It’s much harder to enforce regulations against companies that operate in every global jurisdiction at once.
same here - you hear a split second of the loudest, worst screeching imaginable. I actually thought that was a problem with my headphones, not with MacOS, until reading this.
Hmm good point, I think I have a red transparent plastic I can use, thanks!
Perhaps indeed! But a crucial distinction is that I consider the complexity in the langauge, compiler, and standard library to all be influences on your program's total complexity as well. Using std::List (or whatever you call it) has the same total complexity as writing your own little growable array.
Thank you for your kind words!

The breadth of connectors is a large part of it, as well as the fact that we are by design multi-cloud, so we limit the vendor lock-in.

We are not too worried about other providers using our technology. The goal is to make Airbyte the open-source standard for EL, and every time a company builds on top of Airbyte we become more of a standard. The data market is so big and keeps growing, so there is room for more than one player. Who knows -- maybe one day Azure will use “Powered by Airbyte” to offer more connectors to their customers.

For the T part, it will depend on your destination. If you’re using a warehouse, DBT is an amazing tool, so we will deepen our integration with them. If you’re using other processing technologies, then we will see where the community brings us.
This thing?

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/blob/master/s...

Which also seems to not have tests. In fact, the only tests I'm seeing are from 2 years ago.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/tree/master/t...

> has much better security

It's using D-bus. My faith in D-bus security is close to my faith in seeing a fresh Linux install with zero D-bus error messages from apps. Which is to say, nonexistent.

> integrates with your DE instead of expecting passwords on the terminal.

There's nothing inherently insecure about passwords on the terminal, and certainly nothing a DE can do better. I have yet to see a display manager or lock screen app that knows what the hell PAM is doing. Try doing even the simplest things with PAM, such as getting a fingerprint reader or Yubikey working, and every single display manager simply chokes.

I'm not sure which is more of a Byzantine mess: Linux authentication and authorization, or Linux audio.
The HDD lubricants are usually bad after 10 years...
I use http://intonia.com/index.shtml for this purpose. It's available on Android/iOS as well.

It's not free, but I think the functionality is a bit better than this. It handles fast passages and can change temperament, show how off you were, etc.
in northern Brooklyn with FiOS and I had issues ~11am-12pm
I've built two Nyquist keyboards (https://ereign.is/objects/). The first one was a bit tricky (with the older PCB design one had to hand-solder a bunch of small SMDs and flash the controllers, https://imgur.com/a/NuF476Q), but the newer boards are very straightforward (and compatible with the SP50 case).

They take a bit of getting used to (hours, not days), but they're surprisingly practical.
Was also doing this for ages but eventually caved since spotify is so so much easier. The DRM on spotify is really stupid since every single track on spotify is trivial to find a torrent for yet no one bothers torrenting since spotify is cheap and very convenient.
Yes, a better description of DRY might be "one place to change a fact".

It's a specific example of my general rule in designing my projects: things that tend to change together should be closer together.
> Also, cloud software isn't much more difficult to open-source

What's the open-source, production-ready, 100%-API-compatible implementation of AWS SQS or Google BigTable?

Genuinely curious, because I've been down these roads and they're not simple.
> "behavioral impairment" is a social judgement, not a biological flaw.

Yes, pretty much all of modern psychiatric diagnosis are explicitly diagnosing a combination of inability to succeed in the concrete social conditions one finds oneself in combined with concurrent behavioral or other symptoms, not “biological flaws”. (Which, incidentally, would also be subjective judgments; biological features are objective, that an objective feature is a flaw is a subjective judgement call.)
What's the downside of calling eval in the client?
> $100/user/month

Please remember that this description does not actually apply to Gitlab, it’s $1200/year or nothing. There is no monthly option.
Any reason to not go all-in and just use Tor? That's what I've been doing lately, although I'm not a web engineer, so I may not be doing the optimal thing.
How is it that that post is still up? Wouldn't it be easy for them to just remove it?
Don't know about law firms, but there were certainly universities standing by to help Epstein conjure up a strategy, like Harvard and MIT.

All MIT did to earn $850,000 from Epstein was send him a thank-you note personally signed by president Rafael Reif, who refuses to step down for it.

Not bad for 30 seconds of work.
Learn Dependency Injection with Doug the Goldfish
It would not stop these sort of exploits if I’m not mistaken (ok, it could help since rewriting return addresses is not possible I think), but memory errors that cause logic bugs are still possible.
Look at how much of a web you have to spin for yourself, just to conclude that it is indeed fine to have others tell you what you need to buy.

The false dichotomy you pose is ridiculous. People seek out information on what to buy all the time. But when I am listening to music, watching television or film, or reading a fucking news article, that is not the time I want to be given that information. It is unsolicited and I don't care about it.
A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration (2017) [pdf]
The kinds of people who like building things will be less sympathetic to environmental concerns when those concerns are 'don't build that, leave the world untainted by human hand'- there's a difference between polluting by building/placing something of value somewhere and polluting as a pure stupid ugly externality. Engineer-y people might be inclined to hate the latter but not the former.
In Iceland, testing the drones that could be the future of Mars exploration
> If you can save that 2MB per user per cache life, you pay that much less on the internet bill for your hosting

Ah yes - I remember those _dark days_ of being a shared webhosting customer over a decade ago and stressing about breaking my 500GB/mo data transfer limit.

Today, Azure's outbound data costs on the order of $0.08/GB, so 1MB is $0.000078125, so the cost of 2MB of JS is $0.00015625.

Supposing you have one million new visitors every month (i.e. nothing's cached at their end so they'll download the full 2MB) - those one million visitors will cost you $156.25 in data-transfer.

Compare that to the immediate cost to the business of paying their SWEs and SREs to trim down the site's resources to a more realistic few-hundred-KB, supposing that's a good 2-3 week project for 3-4 people - assuming a W/Best Coast company, that's ( $250k / 52 ) * 3 * 4 == $57,000.

From looking at those numbers, there is absolutely no business case in optimizing web content - it's now significantly cheaper (on paper) to have a crappy UX and slow load-times than it is to fix it.
Observation of the onset of a blue jet into the stratosphere
You can do both! But because simplicity has a substantially greater impact than the language choice, I think it's better to focus on that. Right now, the ecosystem is focusing more on the language choice, and hardly talking about simplicity at all. And particularly in the case of Rust, I think it fails simplicity a lot in its own ways - in the stdlib, the compiler and toolchain, the language design - and the trade-offs don't really make sense for a lot of use cases that people are pining for it over anyway.
The “Fuck yeah SOYENCE” crowd doesn’t realize that science (as a process) can only hope to get to the truth in the asymptotic (infinite) future. The path to getting there is incredibly messy, especially because it is carried out by sacks of meat and emotions (cue: Planck’s observation that science progresses one funeral at a time).

At any finite time, it is difficult to guarantee that science has the correct answer — especially in ”complex systems” where many factors interact, including through feedback loops. The very idea of repeatable controlled experiments (at the heart of the scientific method) is fundamentally limited in its ability to address such systems. So for all practical purposes, decisions (be it individual, or policy) need to often accommodate uncertainty/incompleteness in knowledge and try to “convexify exposure” — rather than trying to bank on having the correct & complete knowledge.